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Getting straight to the hub of the matter
01 December, 2007
Oceanlinx Ltd has been selected as the fourth developer for the UK’s £28 million Wave Hub project, a marine energy test site that will also operate as a sea bed terminal and grid connection.

First turbines arrive at Whitelee
01 December, 2007

Fuel Cell Focus
01 December, 2007

Tidal reservations surface at the water margin
01 December, 2007
Building the Severn barrage would significantly advance the UK’s fossil dependency ambitions, as well as help to maintain its position as one of the leaders in the tidal race, but at a cost that opponents say is too great to pay – the displacement of many intertidal species and even the destruction of the Severn bore, a much loved local phenomenon. Would the return justify such an enormous investment and such a loss?

WTA offers big efficiency gains
01 December, 2007
The next major step forward for brown coal (lignite) fired power generation looks like being the RWE-developed fluidised bed based WTA process for precombustion drying of this high moisture fuel. A large scale pilot plant is due to start operation early next year at Niederaussem K in Germany, while a WTA system is to be retrofitted to the Hazelwood plant in Australia.

They don’t make them like that anymore
01 December, 2007

POWER PLANT PRODUCTS
01 December, 2007

Seeking a new R&D path to clean coal
01 December, 2007
‘We need to rethink radically our approach to the R&D effort being put into clean coal technology’

The influence of micro-CHP units on a distribution network
01 December, 2007
Nuon has been enlisted by a consortium of Dutch energy companies to assess the effect on what would normally be a passive distribution network of the introduction of numbers of CHP micro-generation units. This assessment has come to be known as the Paddock Trials.

100 years of high voltage DC links
01 November, 2007
The 100th anniversary of operation of the first truly commercial HVDC transmission cable, the Moutiers-Lyon line, is celebrated this year.

Indian sign works well for Wärtsilä
01 November, 2007
Achieving uninterrupted power supply at all plants operated under Wärtsilä O&M contracts is the ultimate goal of the company’s zero breakdown (ZBD) initiative.

COMTES700: a rig for the over 50s
01 November, 2007
The COMTES700 facility in Germany is testing the nickel based alloys needed for the next generation of coal fired plants – envisaged to have live steam temperatures of 700°C and efficiencies of 50% or more. The facility has now clocked up just over 10 000 hours of testing – half way to its goal of 20 000 hours by 2009.

IGCC for effective carbon control
01 November, 2007
Maarten van der Burgt reports from the 8th European Gasification Conference, held in Antwerp, 10-12 September, 2007, organised by the IChemE

Vado Ligure unit 1 rejuvenated: from sixties coal plant to CCGT
01 November, 2007
On 9 July 2007 – in time for the summer peak load – unit 1 of Tirreno Power's 36 year old oil/coal fuelled Vado Ligure plant, originally rated at 320 MWe, began its new life as a modern 780 MWe combined cycle plant.

This is no laughing gas
01 November, 2007

When things go wrong: identifying combined cycle problem areas
01 November, 2007
In many combined cycle plants around the world the benefits of advanced gas turbine technology have not been fully realised due to problems with compressors, combustors, transition pieces, blades and vanes. Meherwan P Boyce, who has been in the turbomachinery business for 44 years, reviews the problem areas.

Keeping the LEDs on cuts maintenance
01 November, 2007
It’s a tougher job than you think, replacing bulbs in the control systems of several nuclar power stations. Especially when you want to replace all 5000 of them at once.

Is superconductivity the answer to inner-city congestion?
01 November, 2007
A new technology to meet the inter-tie needs of grids in critical urban centres is found in AMSC’s HTS based ‘Secure Super Grids’ cable system with a built-in fault current limiting feature. It is designed to be installed more easily, provide an enhancement in power capacity and fault current protection, and add security and reliability.

A modern power system on your tabletop?
01 October, 2007

How the rising generation sees rising generation
01 October, 2007



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